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Lantern: Finding Committable Transactions via Back-Propagation on DAGs

Denglong Li·Gerui Wang·Tian Guan·Mingchao Wan
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Existing concurrency control protocols either introduce nondeterminism, resulting in a serial execution-replay dependency between primary and replica nodes, or rely on impractical prior knowledge of transaction read-write sets. In this paper, we present Lantern, a deterministic concurrency control protocol tailored for high-performance transaction processing systems operating without prior knowledge. The key insight of Lantern is that all zero-out-degree transaction vertices in the local dependency graph can be safely committed in ascending order using an overwrite-permissive strategy. We further introduce a novel Back-Propagation mechanism that iteratively propagates dependency states from sink to source vertices to identify additional committable transactions. We also propose Conflict-Free Batch Selection (CFBS) for read-modify-write intensive scenarios. We integrate Lantern into the open-source blockchain platform ChainMaker. Extensive evaluations on YCSB and SmallBank benchmarks demonstrate that Lantern achieves up to a 4.2x throughput speedup over Aria and improves the throughput of ChainMaker's execution layer by at least 2.2x.

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Denglong Li, Gerui Wang, Tian Guan, Mingchao Wan. 2026-09-03. Lantern: Finding Committable Transactions via Back-Propagation on DAGs. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03315

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